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    Pequeñas cosas bellas

    By Cheryl Strayed

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    Pequeñas cosas bellas es una recopilación de cartas y sus respuestas escritas por los lectores a «Dear Sugar», la columna de consejos que publicaba la revista digital The Rumpus. Su autora, en principio anónima pero que luego resultó ser Cheryl Strayed, contesta compartiendo experiencias propias, lo que confiere autenticidad y profundidad a los consejos que da, proporcionando una serenidad al lector que invita a seguir leyendo y a aprender de alguien que ya ha pasado por una situación similar. Strayed vuelve a su propia historia para interactuar con los lectores, y de estas conexiones inesperadas surge una magia que convierte lo concreto en universal. Strayed nos ayuda a descubrir nuestra propia esperanza y nos dice que podemos llegar a lo más hondo de lo que significa amar, llorar, sufrir, y que somos capaces de algo más que rendirnos.

    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherRoca editorial
    Release dateFeb 12, 2015
    ISBN9788499189994
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    Pequeñas cosas bellas
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    Cheryl Strayed

    Cheryl Strayed is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel Torch and the nonfiction books Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Tiny Beautiful Things and Brave Enough.

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    • 5/5
      Because I've had to grapple with my fair share of nature/nurture shortcomings (i.e. bipolar & anxiety disorders, along with parents who didn't have a f*cking clue about adulting, for starters), I've had various forms of counselling & therapy & advice given to me from childhood onward by well meaning friends and professionals with various degrees of talent, proficiency and levels of empathy. As I'm now approaching my 5th decade and have been more even-keeled than ever in the last decade or so because of many consistent efforts made by me and various health professionals as well as a regular meditation practice, I consider myself rather well versed as far as seeking mental health and well-being. I'd say Cheryl Strayed ranks right up there with the very best of them as far as giving advice to those seeking perspective in their life on love and life situations such as cheating partners; losing dear ones; overcoming student debt; dealing with grief; whether one should stay or leave a relationship, and countless other situations her readers have written to her in her anonymous online forum where she was only known to them as "Dear Sugar". Her qualifications come mostly by way of having gone through more than her own fair share of hardships, and having processed those with loads of humanity and empathy, a very good brain, and also plenty of good judgment, acquired by way of having made plenty of bad decisions and correcting her own course along the way. This journey seems to have made her more qualified that at least 50% of diploma-holding social workers, shrinks and therapists I've personally encountered in my life (there were many, many, many as I was a very troubled kid & young adult), as far as not being a judgmental a-hole, being an excellent writer, and giving advice that is actually worth listening to. Who do I recommend this book to? Basically, anyone who's ever asked themselves if they were doing things right in their life as far as being a decent lover, daughter or son, parent, grandparent, friend or human being. Or anyone who's ever asked themselves wtf, wtf, wtf, wtf??? over and over again at any point in their life and hasn't found satisfactory answers to what is pretty much as open-ended a question as you can get. She's actually got an answer to that question, though be warned it's pretty hardcore! Be prepared for a good dose of healing, sobering, and sometimes harsh truths, but always delivered with love.
    • 4/5
      Compassionate advice about going on or changing things when you can’t see how that could be done.
    • 5/5
      Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life From Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed is a collection of the letters and responses that were printed in the advice column, "Dear Sugar", from The Rumpus. The topics range from love and marriage, cheating, identity (sexual and otherwise), parenting, relationships with parents/children, grief, and abuse. Strayed does not pull her punches and she doesn't apologize for it either. She somewhat softens the blows of her blunt advice and observations with endearments like 'sweet pea' and 'honey bun' but instead of sounding condescending it feels like it could be delivered by a trusted confidant. Lest you think that she gives this advice from a rather standoffish perspective it is often conveyed through her own personal experiences and struggles. When the column was originally written her identity was unknown which makes the intimacy and the rawness of the letter writers and her response to them such a unique and wonderful thing. If you've ever experienced turmoil in any area of your life (and you'd have to because that's just a natural part of things) then reading such real, honest advice delivered with love and respect is a welcome breath of fresh air. I laughed, cried, and goggled with incredulity while reading this book. It's an excellent palate cleanser if you're in a book reading rut or a great way to kick start your summer reading adventure. ;-) 10/10
    • 4/5
      A greatest hits collection of letters printed on The Rumpus and responses from Sugar (Strayed). Intimate letters from strangers in distress and sometimes blunt, but always kind and highly personal responses. To me, some of the letters and responses felt too intimate and personal to read. I almost felt uncomfortable reading it...like I was intruding on a private conversation. Beautifully written, but I couldn't shake the feeling that these letters weren't meant for my eyes. Far higher quality than typical advice given dispensed from advice columnists.
    • 5/5
      I don't know if I can adequately describe right now just how important this book is to me, and why it was so appropriate for me to read it now, instead of last year when I had first heard of it. I'm glad I waited until after I'd made some serious fuck-ups, so that I could read it and realize those fuck-ups were necessary and okay. And that they don't mean I am a terrible person.

      Strayed is blunt but kind, whimsical in her wording, and ultimately loving. There is no judgment here. I want everyone to read this book so that they can become better friends, parents, partners, and so on. I think it will help me do that, too.
    • 5/5
      The best-of collection from online magazine The Rumpus' advice column on love and life. Strayed's words and advice are striking, powerful and haunting. Highly recommended.
    • 3/5
      Different than what I expected because I've never read the, "Dear Sugar" column. I got tired of the author talking about herself and oversharing then going way back trying to weave it in with her advice. But she does has some well-written, often touching insights - it's a good book to read in short spurts at a time.
    • 5/5
      In this collection of Dear Sugar's columns, there is an artful brilliance to Strayed's insight and answers to some of life's most difficult questions. Sugar's straightforward responses at times are shocking b/c as a society we don't typically call people on there s*** the way she does but she does so lovingly, sweet pea. She forces us to go along with her on this journey of reflection and discovery; the reader explores how to love when we are vulnerable, how to find the good in others and ourselves, how to forgive, how to remember what is important, how to have true and honest intimacy (the only kind really) with those we love, and how to find our footing in this complicated, scary world. Tiny Beautiful Things is aptly named as each column, regardless of the question and topic, is a gem that will resonate in some way with you. If I had the money, I would send a copy to everyone I love.
    • 4/5
      It's a collection of letters that Dear Sugar (Cheryl Strayed) featured in her Rumpus.com. It's kinda like a Dear Abby with a spank. LOL! I like it. The stories and advises made me giggle, laugh, smile, teared-up, inspired, etc. I borrowed this from the library since I'm still on the wait-list for "Wild" (Cheryl Strayed best seller book turned to movie starring Reese Witherspoon). Anyway, I did enjoy reading this book.
    • 4/5
      This isn't a collection from your typical advice column - and for that I am grateful. Sugar's advice comes straight from the heart and is based on her own insights and experiences. If you find yourself stuck in a pit of despair and ask her for help, she's not afraid to jump in with you - after all, she's been there before and knows the way out.
    • 5/5
      I actually saw Cheryl Strayed read this in San Francisco last year (2012). While sometimes the "sweetheart" got old for me, I really really love her direct, no-holds-barred advice. I like to pick this up from time to time to read, rather than reading this in a linear, chapter fashion.
    • 5/5
      Not long after I began hearing constant talk about Cheryl Strayed's Wild, which I still need to read, I heard about Tiny Beautiful Things; a sampling from her time as an advice columnist known as Dear Sugar. While hiking isn't really my thing, the epic journey of Wild and endless stream of recommendations was enough to make me curious. But why would I want to read a hodge podge of advice columns that I could skim through, or more likely skip over, online? Over the past year, several friends and trusted reviewers have given Tiny Beautiful Things tons of praise that I couldn't ignore. I'll admit that I can fold to a decent amount of peer pressure - in this case, I'm so happy I did.

      Tiny Beautiful Things does it all. Strayed covers every topic imaginable, from frivolous high school love triangles to dealing with miscarriages and boyfriends wearing panties. But the magic of the book isn't just in the varied topics, it's in the way Sugar infuses her answers with a perfect blend of sense, understanding, vulgarity (those curse words are important), and bits of herself. While she is willing to call people out on the exact things they need to hear, she does it to be helpful instead of turning on the know-it-all tone that can make many advice columns unbearable.

      [in response to a struggling young writer] "The most fascinating thing to me about your letter is that buried beneath all the anxiety and sorrow and fear and self-loathing, there's arrogance at its core. It presumes you should be successful at twenty-six, when really it takes most writers so much longer to get there. . . . You're up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done. We get the work done on the ground level. And the kindest thing I can do for you is to tell you to get your ass on the floor."

      I found myself struggling to hold back tears during most of Sugar's responses. Sometimes she shared heartbreaking stories from her own past that were difficult to read, but more often I found myself choked up over the beauty in her words. There is so much more to Tiny Beautiful Things than just advice, there is conversation - this book feels like a good friend.
    • 5/5
      Despite all the good reviews, I was skeptical about this collection of advice columns. I had a hard time imagining the columns could have universal appeal. I quickly found that I was wrong. I would read a letter written to Sugar and think there was no possible way I would be able to relate to the advice that Sugar was going to give. Then all the sudden there were tears streaming down my face as Sugar gave such honest advice. She is so good at acknowledging that pain is real and life can be hard, while never allowing people to wallow in their suffering.
    • 3/5
      Readers who have not already read the columns will like the book much more. They were great to read again, and Strayed is a tremendous writer.
    • 4/5
      A beautiful heart-punch of a book - Strayed dishes out brutal, loving, honest and painful advice on how to live a good life. It ran a bit long by the end - a few letter covered similar themes - but it's pretty inspiring stuff.
    • 5/5
      I'm not really the sentimental type, and I don't generally cry when I'm reading books. But, I had tears in my eyes twice in the first 100 pages of this book. I think because this book speaks to my life. Or, at least a portion of my life that I had someone partitioned off into some other space. Cheryl Strayed is a complex person, but she has lived a real life, and her advice comes from that perspective. Her language is a little rough for my particular taste, but I've heard worse (often coming out of my own mouth) after a wayward shot on the tennis court. This is clearly the most thought-provoking and remembered book I have read this year.
    • 5/5
      Part advice column and part memoir, Tiny Beautiful Things presents the human condition and the best person that we can be with empathy and clarity. Just superb!
    • 4/5
      Warm and reassuring, but also very honest.
    • 5/5
      I had seen that friends had read and loved this book, but I resisted it. I didn't really need an advice book. It seemed like a book to read when you were having Hard Times, and I'm not having Hard Times. But I read Strayed's Wild and liked it, and it was available as an eBook from the public library, so finally I picked it up. And it is SO good. This is not a book for Hard Times, it is a book for Life. Strayed's writing is beautiful and compassionate and true. I'm seriously considering buying a copy, so that I can reread it on occasion (and I am not generally a rereader).(Warning: You will probably cry while reading this book. Beware reading in public.)
    • 4/5
      My thanks to Mark for blazing the trail to this one. I really enjoyed Cheryl Strayed's Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, her startlingly honest memoir of hiking that trail at a very difficult time in her life, and was curious about her Tiny Beautiful Things, a collection of her advice given as "Sugar" in an Internet column. After Mark had a positive reaction, I dug in and loved this one. Again, her honesty and clear-eyed view of life, along with her straightforward, conversational, engaging writing style, made this one a standout. The Internet forum has additional benefits, as the language is sometimes quite blue, but always appropriate. This is not your mother's advice column.Strayed often begins her answer to a question about relationships, addiction, betrayal, confusion, or whatever, with a story from her own life. We know from Wild some of the marshy traps she has survived, including heroin addiction. Her stories always connect up with the key issue in the sometimes disjointed questions she receives. One reader's simple question about life, "WTF?", causes Strayed to disclose that she was sexually abused as a child, which made her ask WTF? a lot, too. Based on her experience, she eventually tells him: ''Ask better questions, sweet pea. The f--- is your life. Answer it.''A reader is involved in a harmful but sexually intense relationship, and her cry for help includes a warm reference to her lover's poetic exclamation to her physical "naughty bits". After astutely dissecting the troubled relationship, Strayed quotes a John Donne poem: " I choose to love this time for once/ with all my intelligence". She suggests the reader try the same. She concludes by saying, "I'm not talking to your crotch, sister. I'm looking you directly in the eye."Ones that particularly moved me included her exchange with a man whose only child was the victim of a senseless drunk driving accident. Strayed discusses how much she learned from her mother's sad early death from cancer, how much it still hurts, and how much her mother is still with her. "The kindest and most meaningful thing anyone ever says to me is: Your mother would be proud of you. . . . When you say you experience my writing as sacred, what you are touching is the divine place within me that is my mother. 'Sugar' is the temple I created in my obliterated place. I'd give it all back in a snap, but the fact is, my grief taught me things." She encourages the man to learn from his son's death and do honor to it.How to deal with "Icky thoughts turn me on", writer's envy and writer's block, leaving the nest, cheating in a monogamous relationship, sleeping around, raising children better than you were raised, are just some of the topics raised. I liked her advice throughout (although no doubt there's room for disagreement), and enjoyed learning more about her life in the process. At the end she's asked what advice she'd give her younger self, and the title of this collection comes out in the answer.. And that's part of the fun of this particular read: what advice would you give to these questioners; what advice would you give your younger self if you could?
    • 5/5
      Cheryl Strayed (aka Sugar) wrote an advice column for The Rumpus, and in this volume, she has pulled together some of her best letters. Sugar is no Dear Abby. Her advice is bold, and ranges from humorous to starkly honest to comforting to profane. In responding to letters from readers, she also shares many of her own life experiences, making this not only a book of advice columns, but also a memoir of sorts. Many of the letters cover topics that I have not had to deal with in my life, and that I hope never to face. But I read Sugar's replies with interest simply because I love the way that she is able to take an either-or situation and see a third option. I aspire to be like Sugar, with her blend of empathy, humor, and wisdom. But honestly, I read a similar description of this book in an early review, and it didn't convince me to read it. It wasn't until I read one or two of Sugar's actual replies that I was hooked. Take, for example, the shortest letter in the book:Dear Sugar, WTF, WTF, WTF? I'm asking this question as it applies to everything every day.Best,WTFSugar replies by sharing some harrowing events from her own life that really do beg the question asked by the letter writer. But she ends with some encouraging words, concluding "Ask better questions, sweet pea. The f*** is your life. Answer it." In reply to a heartbreaking letter from a mother whose daughter had brain surgery and who was questioning the existence of God, Sugar (who discloses that she is an atheist) offers some theological advice that hit home for me: "What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer to you? . . . What if the worst thing happened and you rose anyway? . . . What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah? Would you see the miracle in that?" And finally, at the risk of losing you in the midst of this lengthy review, I want to share two paragraphs from a letter asking what Sugar would tell her twentysomething self. These two paragraphs, side by side in the letter, reflect the range of emotions that Sugar's responses evoked in me:"When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn't "mean anything" because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people's diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming."Good advice, indeed.
    • 5/5
      I feel compelled to start this review by saying this is an amazing book, and one of those books that came into my life at a time when I needed it most. A selection of letters to "Sugar" (Cheryl Strayed's pen name while writing the advice column) seeking advice, and her incredible responses, Tiny Beautiful Things made me think, question, hope, agree, disagree, and most of all, feel. It made me want to write my own letter to Sugar.
    • 5/5
      I must own this book.
    • 4/5
      Disclaimer: I received a complimentary copy of this book through First Reads. All opinions are my own.

      A compilation of advice columns written by Cheryl Strayed as, "Dear Sugar." It was a delightful book with beautifully written advice. I'm thinking this might be a good gift for graduates. She covers a plethora of life situations, always giving advice gently and eloquently.
    • 5/5
      If you are looking for Ann Landers you have come to the wrong place. Strayed gives advice to questions that Ann and her sister Abby would have never considered answering (and probably would have given them a case of the vapours just reading). Both with the wisdom that comes from life experience and her remarkable ability to be both brutally honest and eloquent at the say time, Strayed gives advice to strangers both honestly and compassionately. If you don't find at least one of her columns gut-wrenching, moving or powerful you are dead inside.
    • 5/5
      Cheryl Strayed's musings on love and life in the guise of advice as Dear Sugar are profound. They draw on her own life to such a degree that this book is almost a memoir.
    • 3/5
      Cheryl Strayed can write, no question about it. A number of her responses left me in or near tears. My issues with the book lie mostly in what the book is: a grouping of advice columns.

      So the profoundly moving sections are interspersed with the more everyday responses and it can get a little old. I am not sure that this is Strayed's fault because most of our problems aren't that interesting. I am not sure that I would have finished this book in it's entirety if I hadn't been listening to it as an audiobook. I'd likely have skimmed portions of the book if I was reading a real paper copy.
    • 4/5
      This is normally a type of book I like to read, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I hoped I would.
    • 4/5
      Many, many people recommended this as the best read they'd had in a while. As a fan of Dear Sugar on The Rumpus, I expected to enjoy it, and I did. But...a book full of Dear Sugar was a bit much, I'm afraid. Strayed is like that very earnest friend we all have, the one who likes to lean way over the table and have serious, heartfelt conversations about the meaning of life or the environment. I like that friend, and I like getting together with her occasionally, but I don't want to be her roommate. Reading an entire book of Dear Sugar was like living with that friend.

      It seems the ideal way to read this would be to buy it, put it on the shelf, and open it to random questions whenever you need a boost.
    • 5/5
      This book is pretty much awesome. Mind-blowing. Eye-opening. Thought-provoking. Etc.

      There is something in there for everyone and often more than one thing, and there are things that I know I will go back and read again later (which means I have to buy the book because I read a library copy) and probably fill it with markings and underlinings and notes in the margins.

      While I was reading this book, I mainly stopped so that I could text quotes to friends in faraway places or tell them to GO GET THIS BOOK NOW.

      Also, knowing that Cheryl Strayed lives in Portland, it was fun to see a few sneaky references to the city (the column was written anonymously). I kept track of some of these, my favorite being about going to "see the elephants at the zoo". (We love our zoo elephants. which reminds me, I still haven't seen Lily!! Ack!)

      Anyway. Read this book. You don't even have to read it all at once. Buy this book and then look at it when you are sad or bored or have a problem.

      Oh, and also, I have read a lot of comments about their being too much of "Sugar"s personal life/experiences in the columns. I don't get that. It's an advice column. When you ask someone for advice you are usually asking them because they have experience with that issue. If I ask a friend for dating advice I am asking her to draw on her dating experience. If a grandparent gives me some advice, they are basing it on an experience that they had, and I will probably take it into account because I know that not only they have had that experience, but that they have also had a long time to reflect on that experience. So I don't get the idea of keeping personal life out of advice. That is the whole point of advice - to hear about others' personal experiences and how they may or may not apply in your situation.